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Elevated Serum Levels of Monocyte Chemotactic Protein-1/Chemokine C-C Motif Ligand 2 are Linked to Disease Severity in Patients with Fibromyalgia Syndrome

Balkan Medical Journal, 2019
Background: Elevated levels of monocyte chemotactic protein-1/chemokine C-C motif ligand 2 have been identified in fibromyalgia patients. Aims: To examine the potential association among serum levels of monocyte chemotactic protein-1/chemokine C-C motif
Yuan-Chuang Zhao, Ting-Hu, Yan-Chen, Ke-Tao Du   +3 more
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Prevalence of fibromyalgia in asthma and its impact on asthma control: a case-control study

Annals of Medicine
Background Asthma and fibromyalgia are chronic conditions that significantly impair quality of life and share common inflammatory and neurophysiological mechanisms.Objective This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of fibromyalgia in asthma ...
Suat Konuk, Alp Ozel, Emine Ozsari, Askin Nasircilar   +3 more
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From acute to chronic pain: tapentadol in the progressive stages of this disease entity [PDF]

, 2017
OBJECTIVE: Chronic pain is now recognized as a neural disease, which results from a maladaptive functional and structural transformation process occurring over time. In its chronic phase, pain is not just a symptom but also a disease entity.
Coluzzi, Flaminia, Fornasari, D, Pergolizzi, J, Romualdi, P.   +3 more
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If fibromyalgia did not exist, we should have invented it. A short history of a controversial syndrome

Reumatismo, 2012
Fibromyalgia is a recent disease, and some physicians remain doubtful about its reality. The history of fibromyalgia is a story of controversies: the fight between subjectivity and cartesianism, and between old mind and body concepts.
S. Perrot
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Determining the Characteristic Vocabulary for a Specialized Dictionary using Word2vec and a Directed Crawler [PDF]

, 2016
Specialized dictionaries are used to understand concepts in specific domains, especially where those concepts are not part of the general vocabulary, or having meanings that differ from ordinary languages.
Grefenstette, Gregory, Muchemi, Lawrence
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Does conservative treatment change the brain in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain? : a systematic review [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Chronic musculoskeletal pain is characterized by maladaptive central neuroplastic changes. Many observational studies have demonstrated that chronic pain states are associated with brain alterations regarding structure and/or function ...
Cagnie, Barbara, Coppieters, Iris, Danneels, Lieven, De Pauw, Robby, Kregel, Jeroen, Malfliet, Anneleen, Meeus, Mira, Nijs, Jo   +7 more
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Machine learning identifies fatigue as a key symptom of fibromyalgia reflected in tyrosine, purine, pyrimidine, and glutaminergic metabolism

Clinical and Translational Science
Fibromyalgia patients vary in clinical phenotype and treatment can be challenging. The pathophysiology of fibromyalgia is incompletely understood but appears to involve metabolic changes at rest or in response to stress.
Teemu Zetterman, Anni I. Nieminen, Ritva Markkula, Eija Kalso, Jörn Lötsch   +4 more
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Letter to the Editor: Reduced intraepidermal nerve fiber density after a sustained increase in insular glutamate: a proof-of-concept study examining the pathogenesis of small fiber pathology in fibromyalgia

PAIN Reports, 2019
Xavier J. Caro, Earl F. Winter
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Scientific Evidence Admissibility: Improving Judicial Proceedings to Decrease Erroneous Outcomes [PDF]

, 2019
In the United States, Federal Rules of Evidence 702, the Frye and Daubert standards govern the admissibility of scientific evidence in the courtroom. Some states adopted Frye while others adopted Daubert, causing varying judicial outcomes.
Kwong, Leica
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Prevalence and clinical characteristics of fibromyalgia syndrome in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A cross-sectional study

Journal of International Medical Research
Objective This study investigated the prevalence of fibromyalgia syndrome in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and examined its association with the demographic and clinical variables of these individuals.
Suat Konuk, Alp Özel, Emine Özsarı, Aşkın Nasırcılar   +3 more
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